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Gdn Ninian 2020.Pub Galloway Diocese St Ninian digital Edition September NEWSNEWS 2020 Our church doors are open again Welcome back! The Bishop Writes Bishop Nolan on remembering, forgetting, forgiving - and why the sun always shines in Scotland. o you remember what you were doing this day five And I remembered when I was his age also being cold on years ago, or even this day last year? I can’t. Mind coming out of the sea at Ayr and being chilled by the cool D you I am at that stage of life where I find it difficult breeze. It is not just Google that can prompt us to remember. to remember what I was doing yesterday. And during eing able to remember and having a good memory is lockdown, because every day was the same, apart from my B something we normally consider to be a good thing. I Sunday excursion to the Cathedral for Mass, or my weekly am sure I am not the only one who admires those who never shop in the supermarket, I found it difficult to remember forget a face, and having met someone once can remember which day was which. where they met them and when. And of course how many However while I can’t remember what I was doing this students wish they had a good memory as they cram their time last year, Google can. My photographs are stored with minds with facts and figures before an exam, hoping that what Google, on the cloud, and that means every now and again they study will not all be forgotten. Google sends me a notification, a link to click on, if I want to But being able to forget and not remember is also a see a photo of what I was doing in the past. blessing and a gift from God. There are moments in life when This is actually quite a useful feature since it brings up we put our foot in it, or do something so embarrassing in photos of events I had forgotten about, or pictures of happy public that we wish the ground would swallow us up – those times spent with others, or sunny holidays abroad. events we want to forget about, and thankfully we do. As time There are pictures there too of Scotland, and they all show goes on the memory fades and the embarrassment fades with blue skies and sunshine. I thought at first that maybe the it. We forget and we hope others forget as well. Scottish weather is better than what we complain about, but But unfortunately Google remembers. I don’t use social then I realised that I never take photographs in the rain. media, Facebook or Twitter, but I feel sorry for those who do, Sometimes when meeting foreigners abroad and telling particularly young people, who as carefree youngsters post them I am from Scotland, they ask to see some photographs. things on the internet which a few years later might come And so I show them photos of the sun-kissed south beach of back to haunt them – for the internet does not forget. Ayr, where the sea is always blue and the sun always shines. People in public life now have their social media accounts At least that is the impression my photos give! What the trawled to uncover from the past things now considered photos never show, of course, is the cool and indeed chilling inappropriate. And there seems to be no sympathy for those breeze that often comes off the sea. who say, in all honesty, “the person I was then, is not the Recently while walking along the shore, on what was a person I am now”. The internet does not forget and those who gorgeous day, I passed a young boy who had just come out of use it are reluctant to forgive. the sea, still wet, proclaiming to all the world: “I’m cold”. Perhaps the phrase “forgive and forget” should really be forget and forgive, for if someone has hurt us or wronged us, as with time we begin to forget what happened and as the sense of pain or anger eases, then it becomes much easier to forgive. If there is one thing then we should all remember, it is that it may be good to remember, but it The sun-kissed south beach of Ayr where the sun always shines! is also good to forget. 2 God’s Grandeur Jim McKendrick sees the wonders of nature and creation reflected in Laudato Si’ and brought to the forefront of his thoughts during lockdown. he Laudato Si’ Special (fifth) Anniversary Year runs from 24th May 2020 to 24th May 2021 and comes in T the midst of another watershed moment – a global pandemic. Reflecting on my Covid-19 experience – as made clear how deeply we are all interconnected and interdependent. Laudato Si’ tells us that “everything is connected” and tragically, this health catastrophe has much in common with the ecological catastrophe. iBoth are global emergencies that will affect many people, both directly and indirectly. iBoth are experienced most deeply by the poor and vulnerable, and expose the deep injustices in our societies. iBoth will be solved only through a united effort that calls on the best of the values we share. ne of the side effects of the coronovirus is a new During Lockdown, I have had abundant time and O awareness of the sights and sounds of nature. I have been opportunity for prayer, pottering about in the garden and much more aware of birdsong and bird life in our garden. I reading the text of Laudato Si’ and the poetry of the Jesuit even saw what looked like a crane one day, posing poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins. I even found my old imperiously on the roof. The flowers on the decking and schoolbook, which is a mere six years younger than me! throughout our garden seem more profuse and brightly There are so many beautiful things within the pages of coloured. Feeding the birds that visit our back garden has long Laudato Si’. I am sure we all have our own personal been a regular activity. This year, they are more numerous, favourites. Mine include: “The Divine and human meet in the with lots of young, fledgling sparrows in particular. Almost slightest detail, in the seamless garment of God’s creation, in immediately, I had to abandon my normal sources of bird food the last speck of dust of our planet.” And also: “The Universe and order bird seed in 17 kilo sacks and energy balls (I always unfolds in God who fills it completely. Discover God in all call them fat balls) in boxes of 150. things. Spend some minutes embracing the God who has Pope Francis reminds us, “All of us can cooperate as embraced you in all things.” instruments of God for the care of creation, each according to The pope goes on to invite us to see God all around us in his or her own culture, experience, involvements and the poor and in nature. These words of the pope take me back talents.” (LS, 14). The Season of Creation, which began on 1st over 50 years to my sixth form classroom and the joy of September (World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation) and discovering a deeper appreciation of Creation in the sonnets of runs until 4th October (Feast of St. Francis of Assisi), has Hopkins. been designated as a “Jubilee for the Earth.” The season will In Pied Beauty, he writes: provide formal opportunities for prayer and action to protect “Glory be to God for dappled things; our common home. We can also read Laudato Si’ and reflect For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow: on its rich contents; slow down and take time to appreciate the … Landscape plotted and pierced – fold, fallow and plough; beauty and wonder of Creation; live more simply and all things counter, original, spare, strange; consume less of the earth’s resources. Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)” Filled with awe at the beauty and wonder of Creation, we Finally, after rejoicing in God’s creation, Hopkins invites us should join Pope Francis in prayer: “he fathers-forth whose beauty is past change; Praise him.” “Laudato Si’, mi signore….” Your Galloway Diocese News At the Galloway News we want to hear from you, the priests and parishioners of Galloway. You can send your items to the editor at any time or look out for the ‘email hotline’ and ‘reply’ to the reminder email. We would also like your photographs for ‘Galloway Glimpses’. Send your contributions, before 30th October 2020 for inclusion in the Advent edition to: The editor, The Galloway Diocese News, Candida Casa, 8 Corsehill Road, Ayr, KA7 2ST. Email: [email protected] RC Diocese of Galloway, charity number SC010576 3 Diocese of Galloway Youth Ministry Father Jim Hayes reports World Youth Day he next international meeting of World Youth Day due to take place in Lisbon, T Portugal in the summer of 2022 has been postponed and will now take place in the summer of 2023. We look forward to visiting the Church in Portugal then. The reason for this is of course due to the Covid-19 pandemic which has caused the World Meeting of Families international conference due to take place next year to be postponed till the June of 2022 and as it is organised by the same Vatican department it would be too soon a turnaround to organise the WYD in Portugal the very same summer so they took the decision to push that on till 2023.
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